The 2024 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup was the 11th edition of the AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup (including previous editions of the AFC U-20 Women's Championship and AFC U-19 Women's Championship), the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the women's under-20 national teams of Asia.
It was held in Uzbekistan between 3âÂÂ16 March 2024. A total of eight teams competed in the tournament, with he top four teams of the tournament qualifying for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Colombia as the AFC representatives.
Japan were the defending champions. They were beaten 1âÂÂ2 in the final by North Korea.
The host country and the top three teams of the previous tournament in 2019 qualified automatically, while the other four teams were decided by qualification. There were two rounds of qualification matches, with the first round played between 4âÂÂ12 March 2023, and the second round played between 3âÂÂ11 June 2023.
The following teams qualified for the tournament.
The matches were played at two venues at Tashkent.
The draw was held on 15 December 2023 at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. The teams were seeded according to their performance in the 2019 AFC U-19 Women's Championship final tournament and qualification, with the hosts Uzbekistan automatically seeded and assigned to Position A1 in the draw.
Players born between 1 January 2004 and 31 December 2008 were eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team had to register a squad of minimum 18 players and maximum 23 players, minimum three of whom must be goalkeepers (regulation articles 21.2 and 26.3).
All times are local, UZT ().
Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tie-breaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings:
In the knockout stage, extra time (excluding the third place match) and a penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary.
All four teams that reached the knockout stage qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.
The following four teams from AFC qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Colombia.